Stephen Ra-Choi’s 95 year old grandmother serves as the central source of inspiration for Matriarchs. A mother of five, grandmother to ten, and great-grandmother for eight (and still counting) – her vivid stories of struggle and triumph in America as a first generation immigrant lent the emotional backbone to his pilot.
Stephen himself originally hails from the great state of New Jersey but currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two famous cats. Ever since his childhood days, Stephen has subsisted on a well-balanced diet of genre-specific films and TV shows that were highly inappropriate for his age. However, those tastes have molded his preferences as a screenwriter today where he now blends genre conventions with stories inspired by his personal life experiences.
While working a 9-to-5 in advertising, Stephen writes in his off-hours and enrolls into writing and directing classes at UCLA Extension. His goal is to successfully pull off a career pivot towards TV and film while also securing representation. Stephen was recently named one of three winners of the 2023 ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship and was invited to partake in the 2023 Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program.
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